let the matter rest• However, she can restassured that we will not let the matter rest.• I was going to knock for I was still intrigued by him but Benjamin called me so I let the matter rest.• Innocentmaintained that Philip should have gone to Rome for absolution but for the moment he let the matter rest.• In her opinion anybody with any sense would let the matter rest there.• Its opponents, however, were unlikely to let the matter rest where it stood in September 1932.• She simply refused to let the matter rest where it.was.